{"id":225025,"date":"2015-01-28T04:24:00","date_gmt":"2015-01-28T08:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"5cf1a2e7d9f6dd6e1d981e39dc877e3f"},"modified":"2015-01-28T04:24:00","modified_gmt":"2015-01-28T08:24:00","slug":"picasso-cubesat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=225025","title":{"rendered":"Picasso CubeSat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/var\/esa\/storage\/images\/esa_multimedia\/images\/2015\/01\/picasso_cubesat2\/15211125-5-eng-GB\/Picasso_CubeSat_small.jpg\" width=\"170\" height=\"95\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"8\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\nThe PICosatellite for Atmospheric and Space Science Observations (Picasso) CubeSat, designed to investigate the upper layers of Earth\u2019s atmosphere.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nDeveloped for ESA by the Belgian Institute of Space Aeronomy with VTT Finland and the UK\u2019s Clyde Space, Picasso will measure the distribution of ozone in the stratosphere and profile the temperature of the mesosphere and the electron density in the ionosphere.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nJust 30x10x10 cm in size, the CubeSat will use a miniaturised multispectral imager for atmospheric \u2018limb sounding\u2019 with the Sun as the light source, and a multineedle \u2018Langmuir probe\u2019 sampling the electron density of the space around it.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nCubeSats are standardised pico- and nanosatellites formed in cubes of 10 cm per side, with a maximum mass of 1.5 kg per cube, intended to make access to space affordable for small companies, research institutes and universities. One-, two- or three-cube CubeSats are currently being flown.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nPicasso is one of a number of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/Our_Activities\/Space_Engineering_Technology\/CubeSats\">CubeSat missions<\/a>&nbsp;being backed by the In-Orbit Demonstration element of ESA\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/Our_Activities\/Space_Engineering_Technology\/About_the_General_Support_Technology_Programme_GSTP\">General Support Technology Programme<\/a>. It will be launched in 2016 as&nbsp;part of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.qb50.eu\/\">QB50<\/a>, a network of 50 CubeSats to probe largely unexplored layers of Earth\u2019s atmosphere.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/var\/esa\/storage\/images\/esa_multimedia\/images\/2015\/01\/picasso_cubesat2\/15211125-5-eng-GB\/Picasso_CubeSat_small.jpg\" width=\"170\" height=\"95\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"8\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\nThe PICosatellite for Atmospheric and Space Science Observations (Picasso) CubeSat, designed to investigate the upper layers of Earth\u2019s atmosphere.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nDeveloped for ESA by the Belgian Institute of Space Aeronomy with VTT Finland and the UK\u2019s Clyde Space, Picasso will measure the distribution of ozone in the stratosphere and profile the temperature of the mesosphere and the electron density in the ionosphere.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nJust 30x10x10 cm in size, the CubeSat will use a miniaturised multispectral imager for atmospheric \u2018limb sounding\u2019 with the Sun as the light source, and a multineedle \u2018Langmuir probe\u2019 sampling the electron density of the space around it.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nCubeSats are standardised pico- and nanosatellites formed in cubes of 10 cm per side, with a maximum mass of 1.5 kg per cube, intended to make access to space affordable for small companies, research institutes and universities. One-, two- or three-cube CubeSats are currently being flown.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nPicasso is one of a number of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/Our_Activities\/Space_Engineering_Technology\/CubeSats\">CubeSat missions<\/a>&nbsp;being backed by the In-Orbit Demonstration element of ESA\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/Our_Activities\/Space_Engineering_Technology\/About_the_General_Support_Technology_Programme_GSTP\">General Support Technology Programme<\/a>. It will be launched in 2016 as&nbsp;part of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.qb50.eu\/\">QB50<\/a>, a network of 50 CubeSats to probe largely unexplored layers of Earth\u2019s atmosphere.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-225025","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-multimedia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225025","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=225025"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225025\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=225025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=225025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=225025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}